Duplex stocking-supporter.



No. s7|,|92.' Patented Apr. 2, 1901. B. KLEINERT, DUPLEX STOCKING SUPPORTER. (Apph t nfildD 4 1900) (No Model.)

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ISAAC B. KLEINERT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE 1. B. KLEINERT RUBBER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DUPLEX STOCKlNG-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 671, 92, dated April 2, 1901.

Application filed December 4,1900- Serial No. 38,631. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: nying drawings in more fully describing my 1 Be it known that I, ISAAC B. KLEINERT, a' invention, in whichcitizen of the United States, and a resident of Figure 1 illustrates myimproved stocking- New York, county and State of New York, supporting device applied toa clasp of a corhave invented Improvements in Duplex set. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the Stocking-Supporters, of which the following same, taken on the line at one side of the sus is a specification. pension-link; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view This invention relates to that class of garof the device detached. ment-supporting devices comprising a pair of In this corset connection for stocking-sup- IO stocking-supporters connected at their upper porting devices the suspensionpiece comends to a suspension-piece which is adapted prises a frame a, having formed at its central to be detachably engaged with a clasp of a upper part the loop I), arranged in the plane corset; and this invention specifically relates of the frame, with which is engaged the flat to and is an improvement upon the device link (1, the lower end of which is provided 15 shown and described in the Letters Patent of with a hole engaging the loop b of the frame the United States granted to me July 31, 1900, a. This frame a is preferably made of a piece and numbered 655,154. In this before-menof wire the ends of which are bent inwardly tioned patent the suspension-piece comprises at the lower part of the frame and are joined a loop integral therewith located at its upper and connected together by the sleeve 0, which 20 part and whose plane of opening is at right is placed over the ends of the wire and pressed angles to the plane of the suspension-piece thereon to rigidly connect the ends of the and which is adapted to be placed over the wire together,thus formingacontinuous rigid loop or eye of a corset-clasp and to be posiframe with a bar at its lower part. The flat tively retained thereon when said loop or eye link (1 has an elongated opening or slot e, 25 is caused to engage with its coacting stud of formed to slip over and embrace the loop or the clasp. Now to provide for greater freeeye f of the clasp of a corset-fastener. The dom of movement of the suspension-piece upper ends of the elastics or tapes 2' i of the when in operative position and to provide a stocking-supporters are, as shown in Fig. 2 p more perfect lock to the corset-clasp are the of the drawings, secured to the lower bar of 0 objects of thisinvention. To accomplish this, the frame a, and said frame and upper ends I make the attaching device of the suspenof the elastics and tapes may, if desired, be sion-piece in the form of a flat link having a covered by a suitable fabric, as shown at j, hole through it at its lower end by which it Figs. 1 and 3, for ornamental and protective is connected to a ring or loop at the upper purposes. 35 part of the suspension-piece, which is pref- In this simple device, as above described, erably formed of wire, thereby providing for we have a means combined with a pair of a universal rocking action of the suspensionstocking-supporters well adapted to secure to piece, and having an elongated opening or slot and suspend from a corset such pair of stockformed to fit over the eye or loop of the coring-supporters and having all the advantages 9o 40 set-clasp, the side of said link being situated and performing all of the functions of other between the adjacent edges of the two sides devices of the class of stocking-supporters to of the corset-fastener when the eye or loop of which this invention belongs. the fastener is in engagement with its stud In applying this device the elongated link and the suspension-piece is in operative pois placed over the loop or eye f before said 5 5 sition, thus ofiering an obstruction to the loop is engaged with the stud g of the corsetsliding of the eye or loop over the stud of the fastener of the corset h, and when said p fastener to admit of its disengagement thereor eye is engaged with the stud g said link d from, and so adding to the stocking-supporter is securely held in operative position and canfunction of the device that of locking the cornot be released unless the loop f is disengaged 100 50 set-clasp. from the stud g. As a means to prevent the Reference will now be had to the accompadisengagement of the loop J from its stud g the inner side of the flat link (1 acts by lying between the edges of the two sections of the corset-fastener, and so when the device is in operative position and under strains of use said link prevents the movement toward one another of the two sections of the fastener, and so prevents the disengagement of the loop f from the stud g, and to this extent securely locks the corset'clasp. To unfasten the loop tfrom the stud g, the steels of the corset must be moved into different planes, so that the rear portion of the link (I will pass over the front of the steel carrying the stud g.

The universal rocking action provided by the connection of the loop I) of the frame a, with the lower end of the flat link 61 insures a free movement of the suspension-piece at or nearits point of support, and so permits of its swinging freely in all directions to produce an equalization of the strains on the stocking-supporters and to provide for all movements belonging to their use.

I claim as my invention 1. In, a duplex stocking-supporter, a suspension-piece comprising a frame having the elastics or tapes of the pair of stocking-supporters attached to its lower part, and a fiat link connected by a universal rocking joint to its central upper part, said link having an elongated opening or slot adapted to embrace and engage with the eye or loop of a corsetfastener.

2. In a duplex stocking-supporter, the combination of a metal frame having a bar at its lower part and a loop at its central upper part; a flat link connected to the loop of the metal frame, so as to rock in all directions thereon and having an elongated opening or slot adapted to embrace and engage with the loop or eye of a corset-fastener; and apair of stocking-supporters connected by their elastics or tapes to the bar at the lower end of the fastener.

3. In a duplex stocking-supporter the combination of a metal-wire frame having a bar at its lower part formed by the junction of the ends of the wire and an embracing-sleeve, and a loop formed at its central upper part; a flat link connected to the loop of the metal frame, so as to rock in all directions thereon, and having an elongated opening or slot adapted to embrace and engage with the loop or eye of a corset-fastener; and a pair of stocking-supporters connected by their elas tics or tapes to the bar at the lower end of the frame.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 1st day of December, 1900.

ISAAC B. KLEINERT.

WVitnesses:

H. A. GUINYBURG, T. L. MOOLYMONT. 

